Aerospace historian, journalist and contributor for Open Minds magazine, Michael Schratt joins us on this sensational episode to give us the inside scoop on the Dan Burisch story and the infamous Area S4 of the Groom lake facility, better known as Area 51, in Nevada. We go into detail about work Burisch did with/on an ET entity named J-Rod, Project Looking Glass, ultra secret saucer technology housed there and other black projects the american government are pouring trillions of dollars into. Yes, this concerns you.Also we have updates on the Shag Harbour Incident and the Shag Harbour Museum and gift shop permanent location status and the Shag Harbour festival.
We also discuss other newsworthy stories including;
• The NASA astrobiology conference and the California lake Arsenic based life with news feed audio starring Jesse Randolph
• California's missile UFO mystery 35 miles off the coast and Jim Mars' comments on Dreamland about the event.
• IUFOC 20th anniversary Congress now under the helm of Open Minds productions.
• The re-election of Ilyumzhinov, past president of the Kalmykia district in Russia, presdident of the World Chess Federation who claimed to have been in contact with ET's, President of the Kalmykia district in Russia.
• Denver ET commission update, Boeing Space rides
• Wiki-leak updates with audio clips
• 5 Hong Kong UFO sightings
• 60 min/ Van Fair UFO/Palin poll
• Gary McKinnon update
• Stephen Hawking
• Phillip Corso
• Paul Hellyer
• Near Death Experience experiments
• Open Minds and alien typology
Lots of good content on this episode. You don't want to miss this one, for the interview alone. Keep your eyes on the skies.
Musical Track Listing
Deastro-Light Powered- Ghostly Swim
Wolf Parade- Ghost Pressure- Expo 86
Ani DiFranco- the Atom-Red Letter Year
Show Notes
Many of the stories covered can be sourced from www.openminds.tv
British UFO Hacker Fights Extradition to US
http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/british-ufo-hacker-fights-extradition-to-us/19740577
Lee Speigel Contributor
(Dec. 3) -- When Gary McKinnon decided to try to find secret UFO files, he did what any curious computer expert would do: He hacked into nearly 100 military and NASA computers until he was finally caught. Eight years later, the Scottish systems administrator awaits his legal fate.
As controversy swirls around WikiLeaks, the website that this week released secret diplomatic cables without authorization, one of the documents in question contains information about McKinnon, whose lengthy extradition case still has the U.K. buzzing, The Guardian newspaper reports.
McKinnon, 44, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome -- an autism disorder that can lead to obsessive behavior -- is accused of illegally gaining access to military files. He's never denied his unauthorized hacking activities between February 2001 and March 2002. After he was caught in 2002, he was charged with hacking into the Army, Navy, Air Force, Defense Department and NASA computers.
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Computer hacker Gary McKinnon leaves Bow Street Magistrates on April 12, 2006, in London. He still awaits word on if he'll be extradited to the U.S. for prosecution.
He has steadfastly stuck to the same story: that he was looking for secret files about UFOs, extraterrestrials, anti-gravity technology and evidence of free-energy sources that could presumably be used by everybody on Earth.
"I was in search of suppressed technology, laughingly referred to as UFO technology," McKinnon said in a televised interview. "I think it's the biggest-kept secret in the world. ... I was searching for files and evidence in relation to the UFO question."
Among the things McKinnon claims to have uncovered in his hackings was a startling image he found in a computer at the Johnson Space Center: "It was a picture of something that definitely wasn't man-made. It was above the Earth's hemisphere. ... It was cigar-shaped. It had geodesic domes above, below, to the left, to the right and both ends. Although it was a low-resolution picture, it was very close up.
"This thing was hanging in space, the Earth's hemisphere was visible below it. [It had] no seams and none of the stuff associated with normal man-made manufacturing."
The British and U.S. governments didn't take lightly to McKinnon's unlawful pursuit, and, understandably, America wants the U.K. to extradite McKinnon for prosecution.
The WikiLeaks document that mentions McKinnon's case revealed former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's unsuccessful attempt to convince officials in Washington to allow McKinnon to serve out any prison sentence in England.
In the 2009 document, U.S. Ambassador Louis B. Susman wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton: "McKinnon has gained enormous popular sympathy in his appeal against extradition; the U.K.'s final decision is pending.
"Brown, in a one-on-one meeting with the ambassador, proposed a deal: that McKinnon plead guilty, make a statement of contrition, but serve any sentence of incarceration in the U.K.
"Brown cited deep public concern that McKinnon, with his medical condition, would commit suicide or suffer injury if imprisoned in a U.S. facility."
McKinnon's computer hacking could ultimately land him behind bars for 60 years. And his search for UFO information has certainly ruffled the feathers of officials from one side of the pond to the other.
Both President Barack Obama and new British Prime Minister David Cameron referred to McKinnon's case at a joint White House news conference in July.
"There's a discussion going on between the British and the Americans about this," Cameron said. "We completely understand that Gary McKinnon stands accused of a very important and significant crime in terms of hacking into vital databases, and nobody denies that that is an important crime that has to be considered.
"I have had conversations with the U.S. ambassador as well as raising it today with the president about this issue, and I hope a way through can be found."
Obama immediately responded: "The truth of the matter is, these days, where we're going to see enormous amounts of vulnerability when it comes to information, is going to be through these kind of breaches in our information systems. So, we take this very seriously.
"The president doesn't get involved in decisions around prosecutions, extradition matters," Obama said. "So what I expect is that my team will follow the law ... and I trust that this will get resolved in a way that underscores the seriousness of the issue, but also underscores the fact that we work together and we can find an appropriate solution."
Despite his hacking endeavor, McKinnon is considered somewhat of a folk hero in the U.K., where bloggers praise him as a national hero and patriot for trying to uncover UFO information by any means possible.
When asked what he thought would be a suitable punishment for his actions, he replied, "Because of what I was looking for, I think I was morally correct, even though I regret it now. I think a free-energy technology should be publicly available.
"I want to be tried in my own country, under the Computer Misuse Act, and I want evidence brought forward, or at least want the Americans to have to provide evidence in order to extradite me, because I know there is no evidence of damage, and that is the main brunt of the charges."
Seeking Proof in Near-Death Claims
OCTOBER 25, 2010
WALL STREET JOURNAL
http://www.online.wsj.com
• By MELINDA BECK
• At 18 hospitals in the U.S. and U.K., researchers have suspended pictures, face up, from the ceilings in emergency-care areas. The reason: to test whether patients brought back to life after cardiac arrest can recall seeing the images during an out-of-body experience.
People who have these near-death experiences often describe leaving their bodies and watching themselves being resuscitated from above, but verifying such accounts is difficult. The images would be visible only to people who had done that.
"We've added these images as objective markers," says Sam Parnia, a critical-care physician and lead investigator of the study, which hopes to include 1,500 resuscitated patients. Dr. Parnia declined to say whether any have accurately described the images so far, but says he hopes to report preliminary results next year.
The study, coordinated by Southampton University's School of Medicine in England, is one of the latest and largest scientific efforts to understand the mystery of near-death experiences.
At least 15 million American adults say they have had a near-death experience, according to a 1997 survey—and the number is thought to be rising with increasingly sophisticated resuscitation techniques.
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People often describe moving down a dark tunnel toward a bright light after a near death experience.
Dead or Alive?
An analysis of 613 near-death experiences gathered by the Near Death Research Foundation found:
• About 75% included an out-of-body experience
• 76% reported intense positive emotions
• 34% described passing through a tunnel
• 65% described encountering a bright light
• 22% had a life review
• 57% encountered deceased relatives or other beings
Note: Patients could report more than one sensation.
In addition to floating above their bodies, people often describe moving down a dark tunnel toward a bright light, feeling intense peace and joy, reviewing life events and seeing long-deceased relatives—only to be told that it's not time yet and land abruptly back in an ailing body.
The once-taboo topic is getting a lot of talk these days. In the new movie "Hereafter," directed by Clint Eastwood, a French journalist is haunted by what she experienced while nearly drowning in a tsunami. A spate of new books details other cases and variations on the theme.
Yet the fundamental debate rages on: Are these glimpses of an afterlife, are they hallucinations or are they the random firings of an oxygen-starved brain?
"There are always skeptics, but there are millions of 'experiencers' who know what happened to them, and they don't care what anybody else says," says Diane Corcoran, president of the International Association for Near-Death Studies, a nonprofit group in Durham, N.C. The organization publishes the Journal of Near-Death Studies and maintains support groups in 47 states.
Dr. Corcoran, a retired Army colonel who heard wounded soldiers talk of such experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, says many military veterans have had near-death experiences but are particularly hesitant to talk them for fear of being branded psychologically disturbed.
Some investigators say the most remarkable thing about near-death reports is that the core elements are the same, among people of all cultures, races, religions and age groups, including children as young as 3 years old.
In his new book, "Evidence of the Afterlife," Jeffrey Long, a radiation oncologist in Louisiana, analyzes 613 cases reported on the website of his Near Death Research Foundation and concludes there is only one plausible explanation: "that people have survived death and traveled to another dimension."
Skeptics say there is no way to verify such anecdotal reports—and that many of the experiences can be explained by neurobiological changes in the brain as people die.
In the 1980s, British neuroscientist Susan Blackmore theorized that oxygen deprivation was to blame and noted that fighter pilots also encountered tunnel vision and hallucinations at high altitudes and speeds.
This year, a study of 52 cardiac-arrest patients in Slovenia, published in the Journal of Critical Care, found that the 21% who had near-death experiences also had high blood levels of carbon dioxide, which has been associated with visions, bright lights and out-of-body experiences.
A study of seven dying patients at George Washington University Medical Center, published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, noted that their brainwaves showed a spurt of electrical activity just before they were pronounced dead. Lead investigator Lakhmir Chawla, an intensive-care physician, notes that the activity started in one part of the brain and spread in a cascade and theorized that it could give patients vivid mental sensations.
• "Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination With the Afterlife" by Lisa Miller
Some scientists have speculated that the life review some patients experience could be due to random activation of the dying brain's memory circuits. The sensation of moving down a tunnel could be due to long-buried birth memories suddenly retrieved. The feeling of peace could be endorphins released during extreme stress.
Other researchers say they have produced similar experiences by stimulating neurons in parts of the brain—or by giving patients ketamine, a tranquilizer and sometime party drug.
Yet researchers who have studied near-death experiences note that such experiments tend to produce only fragmentary visions and hallucinations, not the consistent, lucid and detailed accounts of events that many resuscitated patients report. One study found that people who had near-death experiences had higher blood oxygen levels than those who didn't.
Several follow-up studies have found that people undergo profound personality changes after near-death experiences—becoming more altruistic, less materialistic, more intuitive and no longer fearing death. But some do suffer alienation from spouses or friends who don't understand their transformation.
Other relatives understand all too well.
Raymond Moody, who first coined the term near-death experience in his 1975 book "Life After Life," explores the even stranger phenomenon of "shared death experiences" in a new book, "Glimpses of Eternity." He recounts stories of friends, family and even medical personnel who say they also saw the light, the tunnel and accompanied the dying person partway on his or her journey. "It's fairly common among physicians who are called to resuscitate someone they don't know—they say they've seen a spirit or apparition leave the body," says Dr. Moody.
Meanwhile, in his book, "Visions, Trips and Crowds," David Kessler, a veteran writer on grief and dying, reports that hospice patients frequently describe being visited by a deceased relative or having an out-of-body experience weeks before they actually die, a phenomenon called "near-death awareness." While some skeptics dismiss such reports as hallucinations or wishful thinking, hospice workers generally report that the patients are otherwise perfectly lucid—and invariably less afraid of death afterward.
Mr. Kessler says his own father was hopeless and very sad as he was dying. "One day, he had an amazing shift and said, 'Your mother was here—she told me I'd be dying soon and it will be fine—everyone will be there."
Dr. Parnia, currently an assistant professor of critical care at State University of New York, Stony Brook, says verifying out-of-body experiences with pictures on the ceiling is only a small part of his study. He is also hoping to better understand whether consciousness exists apart from the brain and what happens to it when the brain shuts down. In near-death experiences, people report vivid memories, feelings and thought processes even when there is no measurable brain activity.
"The self, the soul, the psyche—throughout history, we've never managed to figure out what it is and how it relates to the body," he says. "This is a very important for science and fascinating for humankind."
Write to Melinda Beck at HealthJournal@wsj.com
UFO commission will not be created in Denver
http://www.extracampaign.org
DENVER - The measure to create a commission to deal with credible reports of extra-terrestrial activity in Denver has failed.
Denver Initiative 300, also known as the ET Commission, failed with less than 1 percent of the precincts reporting, 84 to 16.
Supporters of the ET Commission said it wouldn't cost taxpayers any money and would be funded through grants, gifts and donations. The commission would have been charged with dealing with credible UFO reports, listening to and documenting reporting of encounters and abductions, among other responsibilities.
Canadian cables in WikiLeaks www.cbc.ca
Last Updated: Thursday, December 2, 2010 | 9:26 AM ET Comments148Recommend152
By John Bowman, CBC News….
WikiLeaks says it will release the complete text of more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables this week, but it started with just about 200. None of the cables in the initial release originated in Canada and very few mentioned Canada at all.
WikiLeaks began by releasing only the dates, sources and tags of all 251,287 cables, more than 2,000 of which originated in Canada.
You can use the search below created by CBC News to find cables originating from the U.S. Embassy and consulates in Canada within a certain date range, or originating from a particular embassy or consulate.
You can also search by tag, which are codes that indicate topics discussed in the cable. Most often, each cable has more than one tag. The Guardian newspaper has put a partial glossary of the codes on Google Docs.
Since WikiLeaks has only released the full text of a handful of the cables so far, search results will only show basic information about the cable, such as the tags and where it originated. As WikiLeaks releases the full text of more cables, CBCNews.ca will update this database.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/11/29/f-database-wikileaks-canada-cables.html?appSession=022188720590973#ixzz16z1ZIZEi
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